Overview
- Officials report 13 infected wild boar confined within a 6 km radius in Collserola, with more than 100 animals tested and no new positives beyond the perimeter.
- A mixed team of Catalan, Spanish and EU experts will audit biosecurity and investigate the outbreak’s origin after sequencing tied the virus to a Georgia 2007 lineage consistent with a potential laboratory source.
- Authorities clarify culling plans inside the control area: farms host about 61,500 pigs, roughly 35,600 fattening animals will go to slaughter in sequence, no sanitary emptying is ordered, and resulting meat will be sold only in Spain.
- Trade fallout is evolving as Mexico, the United States, Taiwan and Japan imposed suspensions, South Korea agreed to resume purchases with a 20 km carve‑out, China and the UK allow regionalized trade, and talks continue with the Philippines and Japan.
- Containment measures include restricted access across 91 municipalities, selective wild‑boar captures between 6 and 20 km, deployment of the UME, and hunter‑incentive and trapping programs in regions such as Valencia and Aragón.